James Jesus Angleton The CIA and the craft of counterintelligence Michael Holzman Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p/b, $28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the poetry-writing […]
[…] First, Gehlen made a deal in 1946 with U.S. intelligence leaders like General Donovan and Allen Dulles, transferring his former anti-communist Nazi intelligence network to the future CIA. (The financial details were allegedly arranged by Walter Reid Wolf, a Citybank official on loan to CIA, who made similar arrangements in 1951 for the CIA’s […]
[…] to join everyone. Linville told me how much he appre ciated The Pied Piper, my biography of Allard Lowenstein, particularly the part about Lowenstein’s work for the CIA. ‘You know that The Paris Review was Peter Matthiessen’s cover,’ he said. ‘He is haunted by the CIA.’ I know for a fact that the New […]
[…] rests upon a reconfiguration of Cold War positions that retain, what Dr. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky termed ‘such interference,’(1)so as to continue subversive covert operations previously perpetrated by the CIA or MI6. This then, is a difficult area and few researchers are looking at the matter at a sufficient level of objective enquiry to outline satisfactorily […]
[…] meeting, Rockefeller would be accompanied by Henry Diamond, his attorney, and Scott Jones. After Rockefeller’s approach, Dr John Gibbons asked the White House liaison office with the CIA to provide him with a report on the UFO situation. The CIA officer concerned approached Ron Pandolphi, a CIA officer and member of the Aviary (Pelican), […]
[…] from Channon. The expected charges were not made. The Libyan connection Putting Libya in the frame has been orchestrated from Langley by Vincent Canestraro, head of the CIA counter-terrorist section. In his book On The Trail of Terror: the inside story of the Lockerbie bombing, published in October 1991, David Leppard tells us this […]
[…] links to US government web servers and other US government information sources, sorted into subject categories. For example, under ‘military’, it provides links to sites on the CIA, US Army, Air Force, Navy, ARPA. Federal Web Locator http://www.law.vill.edu/FedAgency/fedwebloc.html ‘One-stop shopping point for federal government information on the world wide web’. A lot of information, […]
According to the Dublin magazine Magill (August 1984), Frank Terpil was ‘kicked out’ of the CIA in 1972. He apparently admitted this while visiting Beirut in the autumn of 1980. He also claimed to have worked for the UN in New York and to have been Idi Amin’s advisor there. These ‘revelations’ were made […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. There is, of course, much to commend in the steps which Congress has taken to restrain the CIA and all forms of U.S. intervention in the internal affairs of other states. But the effect of these measures will be frustrated as long as new agencies – such as […]
[…] ordnance……We’re here to say it’s no accident – somebody shot this aircraft down.’ (20) In order to try and explain away the hundreds of eyewitness testimonies, the CIA produced a computer-generated video of the TWA Flight 800 crash. In the CIA’s video, the plane climbs about 3,000 feet after the nose section has broken […]
